Damn. I just copied all the /usr/lib/portage/bin to /usr/sbin for a quick fix. Do you think that's going to hurt later on or should I just forget it?_________________It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
- Neal Stephenson

If only You and Dead people can read hex, how many people can read hex?

I don't know if this helps anyone, but I also got the problem not finding emerge. I had a terminal open before i installed portage. I used the same terminal to do the rest of the install. however, when time came to do emerge system, it couldn't find emerge. So all I did was open a new terminal re-did the bootstrap (if i couldn't find emerge, could the bootstrap script, my guess is no), and then ran emerge, which worked.

I've been waiting for this release for quite some time now. I'm an OS X user however I've always been a tad envious of my roommate's system thanks to his using Gentoo Linux on his laptop and possesing portatage. My concern is that Gentoo MacOS seems to install it's apps in the main files where OS X also keeps it's own stuff. This makes me kind of weary in that bothi Fink and DarwinPorts, other OS X package managers avoid this and install in their own subfolder, as to not overwrite or otherwise worry about the Apple issues versions of software. Doesn't this mean portage installs can overwrite Apple's versions and cause problems say if you uninstall portage at a later date or if Apple issues an update that overwrites a binary installed by portage? Also will there be a MacOS section appearing in the forums in the near future? Even despite these concerns though I'm thrilled at all of the great prospects Gentoo MacOS presents.

I think the solution is to remove fink directories from you PATH variable, as you suggest, and re-executing /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap-macos.sh._________________L'architecture est mise en oeuvre la nature
-- E.L. Boulee

For me, "emerge sync" just gives me a stream of "Failed cache update" errors for every ebuild.

I'm guessing I need to create that image, but the wiki doesn't explain crap.

Quote:

hdiutil create -size 750m <Imagename> -volname <Volumename> -fs UFS

If you read the documentation, you will find that problem is not related to gentoo MacOS, but to the new structure of the portage cache. You dont have to care of this error because it will disapper nex...ypu dont need to do any image of any type! Yust read the doc!

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.
!!! (dependency required by "app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8" [ebuild])

As far as I can see, portage doesn't have the macos keyword in any version, so how did you get past that error?

According to /etc/make.conf you have to add "ppc" to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, afterwards you will be able to emerge gentoolkit-dev. I tried it, it works fine, but I want to wait for the macos keyword in those packages in fear to mess with macos libaries when emerging not-tested packages....

I hope I didn't bork my system... I would say there is something to be said for the fink/DarwinPorts way of having all installed packages in one non-system directory. Nonetheless, I'm still very happy about emerge on os x!

I noticed the bootstrap injecting a lot of things that I didn't have which worried me.

When it was done, emerge didn't work because it says I don't have python. I've done a complete install of Xcode 1.2 for Panther and I thought that it had all the stuff I was going to need for portage. Where am I supposed to get Python? I tried compiling from source but it failed saying it can't find limits.h.

My suspicion is that OSX may be missing some things from the initial install._________________Inspiron 4100 & Sun UltraAXe
Portage on Solaris|Dell Laptop Hacks
The way you feel about organized religion is the same way I feel about organized socialism.

Ypu must install the full DeveloperTools Package, in order to have portage work. Anyway, the fastest way to find out if you have python installed on you machine is to open a terninal and write "python", if the python ide start you have it ;-p

i hope they update bugs.gentoo.com asap in order to reflect gentoo-macos, so we can report working packages .. i submitted a couple in the general gentoo section but i'm sure it got overwhelmed by all the other reports.._________________Think Different, Think Emerge.

Ypu must install the full DeveloperTools Package, in order to have portage work. Anyway, the fastest way to find out if you have python installed on you machine is to open a terninal and write "python", if the python ide start you have it ;-p

Yeah it didn't do that. I thought Xcode was the full package. Unless there's something else missing._________________Inspiron 4100 & Sun UltraAXe
Portage on Solaris|Dell Laptop Hacks
The way you feel about organized religion is the same way I feel about organized socialism.